Many people are aware of business intelligence (BI) products and how companies can use them to improve productivity to better understand the data behind their operations. However, not everyone realizes the powerful case for using business intelligence in higher...
College is a place for students to learn, laugh, succeed, and fail. Most of all, it’s a place to grow. When colleges and universities provide students with access to the tools they need to succeed, great things can happen. Fundraising programs help...
Universities are some of the most complex enterprise organizations. It is no surprise that they have always been interested in using technology to improve knowledge and better control operations. The challenge is that large and complex organizations can take time to...
As is the case with most any organization, the most important operational contributor to a higher education institution is its people – its human resources. These people are its value-building machine. But they also make up a large portion of its operating costs....
Have you heard any of these questions at your higher education institution? “Is enrollment up versus this time last year? “How well are we doing at retaining that cohort? “How many will graduate, and how many will graduate on time?” Our goal in this blog -- whether...
When selecting an educational software vendor there’s no one way to do it. Every organization has its own processes and preferences that go into defining and measuring academic success. This holds true for institutions in the Education industry. When selecting...
In the age of Big Data and Analytics, we find ourselves surrounded by data. While most of the data might reside in our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, it’s likely that there are several other ancillary data sources available to us. These sources may be...
Introduction As data is collected daily through the heavy use of computers and the internet, we continue to be plagued by the problem of dirty data. Data that is error prone or inconsistent leads to bad outcomes, such as misguided decision making (e.g. inaccurate...
More and more applications (software) are residing in the cloud. In the past, these applications were often viewed as black boxes. This means the end user sees an interface but has little insight into the processing that goes on within them. But that approach has been...